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Cougars may live as long as 20 years in captivity. Causes of death in the wild include disability and disease, competition with other cougars, starvation, accidents, and, where allowed, hunting. The feline immunodeficiency virus is well-adapted to the cougar. [100]
On average, captive animals (especially mammals) live longer than wild animals. This may be due to the fact that with proper treatment, captivity can provide refuge against diseases, competition with others of the same species and predators. Most notably, animals with shorter lifespans and faster growth rates benefit more from zoos than animals ...
The California Department of Fish and Game has roughly estimated 4,000 to 6,000 cougars present in California since 1972 [13] In 2021, a cougar was sighted walking through a San Francisco neighborhood [14] In 2022, a cougar was sighted at a school in Daly City [14] Minnesota
Cougars (Puma concolor) are one of the most widespread cats in the Americas.They roam across North, Central, and South America, from Canada and the United States all the way down to Patagonia ...
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A cougar has been spotted in Silverton, the Silverton Police Department announced on Monday. The big cat was seen in the South Water Street area near Olson Street and Pioneer Drive.
The Florida panther had for a long time been considered a unique cougar subspecies, with the scientific name Felis concolor coryi proposed by Outram Bangs in 1899. [11] A genetic study of cougar mitochondrial DNA showed that many of the purported cougar subspecies described in the 19th century are too similar to be recognized as distinct. [ 12 ]
Puma (/ ˈ p j uː m ə / or / ˈ p uː m ə /) is a genus in the family Felidae whose only extant species is the cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, and panther, [2] among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).